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Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

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This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservation Task Force, an initiative of the Library of Congress.

A DJ looks back on 50 years on jazz radio in the nation’s capital

By Rusty Hassan, Host (WPFW) | February 12, 2019

Rusty Hassan has seen shows and stations come and go during his long career on Washington, D.C., airwaves, and he’s still at it.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

‘The World Is Yours’: How the travelogue shaped early public broadcasting

By Katie Day Good, Assistant Professor (Department of Media, Journalism and Film, Miami University of Ohio) | December 14, 2018

The globetrotting quality of public media is neither new nor politically neutral and has roots in the earliest days of American broadcasting.

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New history of public broadcasting to include expanded coverage of podcasts, digital media

By Mike Janssen Mike Janssen, Digital Editor and Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor (University of Colorado Boulder) | June 18, 2018

Current is happy to announce an update of our book A History of Public Broadcasting, with a projected publication date of 2021.

Programs/Content

Wisconsin Public Radio’s ‘Earplay’: Before the podcast era, a story-focused series with experimental edge

By Eleanor Patterson, Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Auburn University) | June 4, 2018

The pioneering series reminds us that public radio stations have always been important spaces for the production of creative sounds.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

The survival of public broadcasting’s legacy has long been part of its mission

By Laura Schnitker, Audiovisual Archivist and Curator of Mass Media & Culture (Special Collections at the University of Maryland Libraries) | March 1, 2018

The National Public Broadcasting Archives at the University of Maryland reflect an inherent dedication to preservation.

Programs/Content

How ‘Sesame Street’ persuaded public television to act like a network

By Kathryn A. Ostrofsky, Digital Archive Coordinator (www.bunkhistory.org) | December 13, 2017

To guarantee the show’s success, its creators had to win over a diverse group of educational broadcasters in the late ’60s.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

How a CPB task force advanced a prescient vision for diversity in public radio

By Laura Garbes (Brown University) | November 13, 2017

In the late 1970s, the critiques by CPB’s Minority Task Force pushed NPR to increase minority employment and training programs and served as a case study in why racial diversity in decision-making bodies matters.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

Colorado station builds vast archive of its history, helps others preserve theirs

By Laura K. Sampson, Founder (Station's Archived Memories at Rocky Mountain Public Media) | October 13, 2017

Established in 2000, Rocky Mountain Public Media’s archive grew from the volunteered work of more than 200 community members.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

Under two visionary directors, New York’s WNYC became an incubator of pubmedia innovation

By Andy Lanset, Director (New York Public Radio Archives) | September 13, 2017

Seymour N. Siegel and Morris S. Novik oversaw advances in technology and aired programs that faced social problems head on.

Rewind: The Roots of Public Media

How NPR’s Research, Archives & Data Strategy team is saving sounds of the past for the future

By Ayda Pourasad, Researcher (NPR Research, Archives & Data Strategy) and Julie Rogers, Historian (NPR Research, Archives & Data Strategy) | May 3, 2017

NPR’s audio archive is not a history book, but history is “etched in the voices that gave these decades their vitality.”

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